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With this question in mind, I started researching, and I soon found that indoor air pollutants were the culprit.
One day our toilet clogged so badly in the restroom, we were forced to close our library for two days because the culprit of the clog was discarded needles.
The main culprit: habitat loss.
I'd say this is like spot-on fluent Wernicke's aphasia, damage to an area at the junction of two of the brain's lobes, temporal and parietal, typically on the left side of the brain, is the culprit.
So, how can we find the culprit behind this calamity?
Depression is another culprit.
Now with only one spot left on the grid, you know that the German in the green-walled house must be the culprit.
If six of them pick out the same person, there's a good chance that's the real culprit, and if all ten make the same choice, you might think the case is rock solid, but you'd be wrong.
The culprit is a protein called tau.
And recently, we used to think that stomach ulcers were just caused by stress, until we discovered that H. pylori was the culprit.
The culprit?
The culprit is arthritis: a condition that causes inflammation and pain in the joints of over 90 million people in the U.S. alone.
And the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth by humankind, and the resulting decline of the biosphere.
That culprit is business and industry, which happens to be where I have spent the last 52 years since my graduation from Georgia Tech in 1956.
In his book, Paul charges business and industry as, one, the major culprit in causing the decline of the biosphere, and, two, the only institution that is large enough, and pervasive enough, and powerful enough, to really lead humankind out of this mess.
The rash is often blamed on penicillin, while the more likely culprit is the original infection, or a reaction between the infection and the antibiotic.
From the fourth test run we know it can’t be thrusters A, D, or E. So is the culprit, B, C, or each of them separately?
Here, they invite the viewer to analyze a crime looking at evidence and clues embedded in five narratives on these five different screens, in which the city itself may have been the culprit.
The psycho loose in the county couldn't have killed one girl because she was in the cheerleaders' locker room while he was elsewhere which means someone among their own is the culprit.
And the last culprit of the night is the always awful CGI.
This is just a stupid, stupid movie, with the culprit being the terrible script.
With the title ruins you would think that out of 3000 years that some kind of deity or ancient animal or god would be the culprit.
Completely unlikable pompous-ass private investigator Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress) is recruited by a newspaper reporter to find out who's been murdering out-of-shape strippers (you'll stop caring who the culprit is long before these two are wrapping up the case).
Could she be the culprit, or perhaps the explanation could be something of a more ethereal nature?
From there, she learns that the culprit is a guy driving a yellow pickup who proceeds to stalk and terrorize her as she hides in the restrooms.
Since O'Brien knows the identity of the culprit, he offers to take the rap in return for the money he needs.
Hitchcock, who some credit with originating the story, engineers a great deal of suspense in plot about a warehouse worker blamed for the explosion which killed his best friend; he sets out on journey to find the real culprit.
Cummings is falsely accused of sabotage and goes on the lam, looking for the real culprit.
We view scenes of America as Kane tries to find the real culprit in the bombing he stands accused of.
The mystery was okay, I was not able to guess the culprit before the end.
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